Details for: PI 548940, Vaccinium floribundum Kunth, V. floribundum 14041


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribundum 14041
Origin:
Collected – Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Top Name:
V. floribundum 14041
Origin:
Collected – Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Received by NPGS:
10 Dec 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
06 November 1990.
Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Locality: Outwash area just E of Laguma San Marcos and N slope along lake
Coordinates: 0.1167, -77.8667 (Map it)
Elevation: 3477m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Paramo vegetation in outwash area and cloud forest along lake.
Comment: Shrub to 2m tall. Leaves quite glaucous. Corolla rose-red. Berry blue-black, glaucous. Plants highly ornamental. Mostly flowering at this time, with only occasional ripe fruits. Common in the outwash area. Seed. Wild.
Collector(s):
Donated
10 December 1990.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Collected wild by Ballington et al and received at NCGR- Corvallis
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. floribundum 14041
Type: Donor identifier

14041
Type: Site identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 839
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

SPECIES
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE

JB 1090
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
Exploration ID links

Narrative
Shrub to 2m tall. Leaves quite glaucous. Corolla rose-red. Berry blue-black, glaucous. Plants highly ornamental.
Vaccinium floribundum Kunth
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Pyxothamnus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41015
Place of publication:

F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 3:208[folio]; 3:266[quarto], t. 251. 1819
Verified:
06/11/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium mortinia Benth.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishColombian blueberry  1Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Spanishmortiño  2Vietmeyer, N. D., ed. 1989. Lost crops of the Incas.
Swedishmortino  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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  • Located at NY. Inventory sample: PI 548940.
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Description:
Collected from the wild in Ecuador